Time
and training of your resources for mobile has become a tremendous
problem for companies going mobile. While many testers are adept at QA,
they may not be experts in mobile. Because of device fragmentation the
demand for output becomes increasingly...

Recently Chris Marsh of Yankee Gropu wrote a great article on the explosion within enterprises to develop and support apps that enable their employees to be more effective and give them the ability to utilize the tools their used to using in their own personal...

We
recently wrote about how the launch of the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini,
each having a different form factor than their predecessors provides
unique challenges for a QA tester and developers who are trying to keep
up with the onslaught of new devices...

Brandon Watson, Microsoft’s developer evangelist, recently caused a stir within the industry when he announced that the Windows Phone 7 toolkit had been downloaded 1.5 million times. He also then went on to state they were adding 1200 developers every week....

This blog post is contributed by John Hsu, a developer for the IBM Notes Traveler for Android team .
Normally, I’m not very interested in writing about a new release for a product that has been out there for several years. In most cases...

Thanks to Raj for kicking things off. I had the pleasure of interviewing him at Innovate 2012 about security and backend integration in IBM Mobile Foundation. If you're new to Worklight, go to the Worklight site he mentions and get the download. You'll find...

When a company is developing in-house applications, User Interface (UI) design becomes problematic. There is no standard UI across platforms, operating systems, devices and proprietary applications. Enterprises haven’t focused on UI to the same extent as...

Then consider this series of articles on how to use Python and SL4A
on IBM developerWorks, including this first article that gets you to the
point of having your own "Hello World" app up and running: Android applications using Python and SL4A,...

Often time, I want to transfer what I read on my computer's browser to my iphone browser. Usually I either have to hand-type the URL or use Google search to find the link on my iPhone. However, recently I find a convenient way to transfer URL to my iPhone...

Over the last 5 years since 2007, we have seen an explosion in mobile apps to make our lives convenient and more efficient. And it appears there is no letting up. Recently, Forrester Research noted that there are now 7.3 billion...

In this post I discuss a fairly complete Android App – Unity which is a simple unit converter. The android app has all the good stuff from Android including activities, intents, spinners, launch icons and a splash screen to boot as below. Download it from...

Unity – A simple unit converter is my first android app. The app in itself is no great piece of software wizardry but I managed to play around some of the basic android concepts. Currently in its current version there are just 4 main types of units – length,...

May 10, 2013: CTO of App47 Andy Glover talks about how to design mobile applications to accommodate how we use them ; plus implement a EULA process with ISAM, dive into the PCI Data Security Standard with a Guardium accelerator, and uncover common decisions...

To
make the iPad/iPhone/Android mobile client work for Connections,
there's more required than just checkmarking the Mobile app when
installing IBM Connections Applications. Here is the URL for this bookmark: http://social.workflowstudios.com/blogs/tru...

Trainspotting Android app. This is my second android app from concept, design and finally to implementation. You can download this app from Google Play at Train Spotting . In this post I discuss the details of the app threadbare. The app has all the usual...

As the title suggests this is my first encounter with Android. This post is not meant for those who are intending to develop serious android apps. This article shows how to get started with Android App development. To get started download the SDK from ...

Unlike Apple's App Store, the Android market only has 5 gaming apps
in their top 10 compared to Apple's 9. Their other five apps are pricey
gadgets such as Beautiful Widgets which offers a new set of clocks,
weather, and toggle gadgets. They also have a...

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Apple is credited with shaping the market to its current state, and if one takes a look at all smartphones post-2007 – when the fruit company first introduced the original iPhone to the world – it’s not difficult to see the huge impact and influence of the...

An imagination or innovation catches on, like in less than few decades, is truly noteworthy. We can't deny the indomitable place that mobile computing stack-up from its 90's bubble to a full blown legacy application that Apple ipad's or various smart phones...

This game of Total Control was one of those games I played when I was a kid when there were no Smartphone or iPods. It was a simple, circular toy with small balls which you had to slowly nudge to the innermost circle. I have been wanting to replicate this game...

Dino Pong is my first android game from concept to completion. It is based on the android game engine AndEngine. This post gives the main hightights in the making of this fairly simple but interesting game. The game is now available on Google Play and can be...

There
are many phases in the testing of any mobile app or website,
specifically when it comes to QA and development. Within development (or
pre-launch) there is Functional Testing, Usability Testing, and
Performance Testing, amongst others. And in...

The New York Times' "Bits" blog is reporting this morning that Lotus Notes will be coming to an iPhone near you soon. The "iNotes Ultralite" package will apparently be free to anyone with a Lotus Notes license (about 140 million at last count). Initially, it...

Recently there was an article which reinforced many of the same issues that mobile app developers and QA teams are running into during development and post-release. They include such things as device diversity, OS diversity, and even organizational diversity,...

This blog post is contributed by Juarez
Barbosa Junior, an IT Specialist working for WW Development Support
Team (DST) at IBM. IBM Mobile Database
is a free product for Android applications. It has many enterprise
features that ease the development of...

Automating your mobile testing has two main advantages, increasing efficiency and cost savings. With automated testing, imagine you are able to conduct manual tests with simple scripts and run it repeatedly. You save human resources and money....

BYOD
has presented many challenges specifically to the enterprise.
Enterprises have a new challenge of managing employee devices that
contain external (personal) applications combined with an organizations
internal system. Many times an internal CRM...

In an article posted in 2012 in TechTarget, Kim-Mai Cutler had the chance to interview " Animoca ,
a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million
downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android
devices....

This post is a continuation of my earlier post ' Getting started with mobile cloud in Bluemix '. Here I take a test drive of the push service that Bluemix offers based on the article " Extend an Android app using the Push cloud service " from...

Worldwide mobile device sales have skyrocketed. Key drivers of this explosion may include the desire for smart phones with instant access to numerous cool applications at your finger tips and the growth of the Android™ mobile operating system from Google. The...

A 100 year old company is gradually and very steadily navigating
rough economic waters to steer the planet towards a better tomorrow. IBM’s
cutting edge software is at the forefront of revolutionizing business services,
cloud offerings, data and information...

Vive LibreOffice!
I've used OpenOffice.org since it was known as Star Office. (That's
been a while.) When it was absorbed into the Sun umbrella, I wasn't
sure what to expect, but Sun seemed to be a pretty good steward of the
project, even creating a...

The world is not just getting flatter,
it’s getting smarter. And changes in our phone usage can be seen as the
archetype of how technology is driving the new smarter planet. The smartness
quotient in the phones is no longer driven by hardware (which gets...

Here is a small post on how I managed to simulate an Edge Shape in Android. I wanted to do this after I saw the Java demo of Box2D in JBox2D(see RayCast ). For the Edge Shape I chose a cosine curve. I used the same method I used, mentioned in my earlier...

This simulation is based on the Java demo of Box2D physics in Jbox (look in Joints).
The first task was to create & place Animated Sprites(face) at the corners of a rectangle. I also added distance Joints between...

I am a frequent user of the mobile app for IBM Connections on my Android.
Previously I have asked IBM for improvement of this app, see also : Ideation Blog item in Greenhouse
And IBM has listened, but often I still cannot share...

In a recent article by Chris Marsh of Yankee Group, he addressed the new partnership between HP and SAP to address enterprise mobile apps. The services are intended to help the clients improve employee productivity with mobile apps and turn...

Seems like the world's largest mobile handset maker has slowly started distancing itself from the the world most popular mobile OS . Yes, I am talking about Samsung electronics, which in a move to " lighten its growing dependence on Google " has...

We've got some very exciting news on the mobile front! Sametime 8.5.2 is now available on the Google Android mobile device! That means you can now have many of the features that you've come to know and expect from Sametime on your desktop or laptop computer...

I love Safestrap
One of the benefits of rooting an android phone is that you can install custom ROMs. On my Motorola Droid I ran CyanogenMod and enjoyed it very much. It added a number of features that I liked, such as allowing me to blacklist SPAM...

We're back, and calling on Tim von Niessen, Consulting IT Specialist with IBM Global Business Services and author of this week's feature article, Programmatically modify Rational datapools . What is the one action you have taken that has accounted for most of...

“Is it an animal? Is it an insect?”. The answer is neither. In fact it is my version of a 'robot walker' in android using Box2D & AndEngine. I got interested in this simulation after I saw the Theo Jansen walker in JBox2D...

One of the alarming issues of the Android 2.x Browser is that it does
not respect the z-index of input elements, this issue is described here
in details:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6721 .
In this post, I illustrate how to...

One of the alarming issues of some Android 2.x browsers is that virtual keyboard sometimes becomes open even if the cursor is not focused on an editable field. This post shows how to resolve this issue:
http://www.technicaladvices.com/2013/04/12/resolvi...

In response to: Get to know Byron Kidd, developing solutions for Japanese mobile devices At times by getting to know what others think of certain things only makes me more comfortable as to I am not alone ...
I have also beginning to make more more use of...

In response to: Get to know Byron Kidd, developing solutions for Japanese mobile devices Very enlightening and fun to read interview ... thank you for taking the time to provide such thoughtful answers. I found your following statement particularly thought...

Rational Solution for Android Mobile Application Development Caffeine alone won't get your Android applications to market faster. You need to arm your developers with the right tools. Android applications can be easily developed in a collaborative model and...

The OnDemandDemoGuy has a new YouTube video. Enjoy! Caffeine alone won't get your Android applications to market faster. You
need to arm your developers with the right tools. See how IBM Rational
can automate collaboration, team coordination,change...

A common language brings together two dissimilar partners: the Ruby scripting language and Google's custom format for Android programs. Thanks to the robust toolkits in the JRuby and Android projects, you can write and run Ruby scripts that behave dramatically...

IBM Worklight comes with built in push support for iOS and Android. This walkthrough should assist in the required set up for this. For the purposes of demonstrating push notifications, we will use the sample code provided by IBM. You can download this from ...

Naveed Makhani is a Senior Product Manager with IBM BigFix, now part of IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager . Naveed joins the podcast to talk about what to expect at Pulse 2012 around the rapidly
expanding topic of mobile computing, why mobile devices are...

The ways individuals and communities interact, form relationships, make decisions, accomplish work, and purchase goods are changing the way business is done. A social business embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community—internal...

My colleague, Dan Hattenberger , just forwarded an article from The Register in the UK. It looks like in addition to native Android and Java code development, you will soon be able to do PHP applications on Android devices. This is pretty cool stuff. I...

If you are using Cordova for building a native application on mobiles using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you may need to override the default behavior of the back button on the Android mobiles to implement your application specific back button behavior. In this...

If you ever get a new email account from outlook.com, here is the settings that works on your mobile phone setup. Your username is your email address when you registered. POP3 server: pop3.live.com (port 995) with SSLencryption SMTP server: smtp.live.com...

Here is the URL for this bookmark: http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=4510 Wow! Optus in Australia are blocking their own Android subscribers from buying apps from Google's App Store - only permitting subscribers to buy apps from Optus's own app store. ...

Secure terminal access to a cloud instance via your phone is easy and fun if you follow this tip, which involves using PuTTY from Windows to access a Linux instance, converting that key to an OpenSSH key, copying the OpenSSH key to Android, and running an SSH...

Open Source on mobile devices growing
A study by OpenLogic generated a few press releases,
which are all being spun in the various directions that people spin
such things. Being a hands-on kind of guy I'm not content to just watch
the spin... I've got to...

In my last post , I wrote about my first Android app, a spinning OpenGL-accelerated cube. I didn't release that one to the Android market of course; it was just a test. However, I am proud to say I have now written an app, "RuneScape Map", and...

In preparation for my [ upcoming trip to Australia and New Zealand ], I decided to upgrade my smartphone. My service provider T-Mobile offered me the chance to try out any new phone for 14 days for only ten dollar re-stocking fee. For the past 16 months, I...

Introduction
During the course of this article you will be presented with three different offline patterns. These are commonly used to create working offline scenarios for mobile applications. The first pattern will take the naive approach of porting...

Implementing
AJAX in Web Application for Smartphones using jQTouch
We usually implement AJAX whenever we need to insert or
fetch data from the server-side database tables, thus improving performance.
Let’s say we want to display detailed...

Fragmentation
has always been a difficult issue, but new complexities have been
introduced with the proliferation of mobile devices. Many companies are
challenged with figuring out how to monetize mobile assets for all types
of devices in a...